期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 24, 期 9, 页码 1892-1904出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13824
关键词
data synthesis; evenness; global change experiments; herbaceous plants; reordering; richness; species gains; species losses
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资金
- LTER Network (National Science Foundation) [EF 1545288, EF 0553768]
Global change is impacting plant community composition through various mechanisms, such as changes in evenness and richness, reordering, species gains and losses. The study found that the majority of communities were affected by global change treatments, especially those exposed to multiple global change drivers. All mechanisms of community change were equally likely to be affected by global change treatments, highlighting the need for a comprehensive approach to measuring community changes.
Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the five fundamental mechanisms of community change: changes in evenness and richness, reordering, species gains and losses. We found 71% of communities were impacted by global change treatments, and 88% of communities that were exposed to two or more global change drivers were impacted. Further, all mechanisms of change were equally likely to be affected by global change treatments-species losses and changes in richness were just as common as species gains and reordering. We also found no evidence of a progression of community changes, for example, reordering and changes in evenness did not precede species gains and losses. We demonstrate that all processes underlying plant community composition changes are equally affected by treatments and often occur simultaneously, necessitating a wholistic approach to quantifying community changes.
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